Summer Transfer Window 2026

[Turkish]

9 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Quotas.

Where the fucking black lad in our back 5 then?

peretez

bree Viking/austrian slotin Manning

 

midfield is all blonde or German lads

jander, Ward Prowse, Flynn and Bragg 

 

is Tommy Robinson doing our recruitment?

Edited 15 hours ago by Turkish

[goodymatt]

Thank goodness for Cyle Larin

[Disco Stu]

25 minutes ago, Dr. Kucho said:

Just reading this thread and the possible links to Falchener and Affengruber. And one question jumps to my mind, why come here? 

Don’t get me wrong, I’ll be very happy if one or even both join us, but looking at where they are now and their ages it doesn’t make sense to me. 

Falchener will be playing Champions League this season and Affengruber plays in the Primera Division. Why would you go to the Championship?

If we do sign them I think we can conclude that our best signing in the last few years has been Johannes Spors. The players he has signed have mostly been quality. Peretz, Jander, Larin, Scienza, Azaz and it seems like Schlott isn’t to bad either.

Isn't it obvious? Our vast European spy network has a new directive: unearth the darkest secrets of our transfer targets and build leverage dossiers to ensure compliance.

Edited 15 hours ago by Disco Stu

[Osvaldorama]

3 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Where the fucking black lad in our back 5 then?

peretez

bree Viking/austrian slotin Manning

 

midfield is all blonde or German lads

jander, Ward Prowse, Flynn and Bragg 

 

is Tommy Robinson doing our recruitment?

And we have a crazy charismatic German leader, willing to break all the rules to win…

 

[Cuddles]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

WTF is going on with his arms and hands?

 

No messing with this bro

 

[SNSUN]

47 hours to go people!

 

We need a back up GK. Long as second choice will be a huge balls up if Peretz gets injured or suspended.

One of the linked CBs in to replace THB.

A striker/attacking player to pad out the front line.

Then replace the exits.

Exciting couple of days.

[Cuddles]

Quite a number of last minute deals to go through Tuesday night I reckon...certainly plenty of players to move on yet.

Who doesn't like a Tuesday night deal?

 

[sockeye]

56 minutes ago, goodymatt said:

Another Plettenberg tweet from early July.

Bournemouth are about to get #FoodChained

[SaintsFan86]

All of a sudden im an avid bird watcher.

[Give it to Ron]

I don’t understand all these links as I was told in no uncertain terms on X from Boro salt of the earth fans that no players will sign for cheats and Tonda.

[benjii]

5 hours ago, Turkish said:

Fuck that that what about the bantz and the Viking row?

Maybe we could do some kind of Austrian wave/salute instead?

[chiknsmack]

19 hours ago, Oh no Mick Mills said:

Mubama is only a loan with no option to buy so if he ends up getting pushed down the pecking order because we find a more suitable alternative to Larin then so be it.

Until next season when we don't get promoted, go looking for Prem loans, and clubs say to us "We don't trust you to give them game time, so we'll loan them elsewhere".

17 hours ago, Turkish said:

the concern is Ramsdale no one seems to be interested we really can’t be having him hanging around on a big wage

If Peretz gets injured and Long is the replacement we're fucked. If Ramsdale is the replacement, we're fine. If Peretz stays fit and Ramsdale sits on the bench (or at home) we're fine. In an ideal world we get Ramsdale off the wage bill and bring in a roughly Peretz-level backup, but how much would one cost? Possibly more than Peretz, knowing they're not coming in to be #1 and so aren't putting themselves in the shop window.

Outside of the ideal world I'm happy with the expensive insurance policy of an elite backup over fiddling about to maybe save a couple of mil and maybe have a decent chance of promotion in the worst case scenario.

16 hours ago, Turkish said:

I’ve no idea when any of them close.

https://www.transfermarkt.com/statistik/transferfenster

[benali-shorts]

1 hour ago, chiknsmack said:

https://www.transfermarkt.com/statistik/transferfenster

Christ, three more weeks of uncertainty over whether Jander secures his dream move to Uganda 

[The Wyvern]

1 hour ago, chiknsmack said:

Until next season when we don't get promoted, go looking for Prem loans, and clubs say to us "We don't trust you to give them game time, so we'll loan them elsewhere".

If Peretz gets injured and Long is the replacement we're fucked. If Ramsdale is the replacement, we're fine. If Peretz stays fit and Ramsdale sits on the bench (or at home) we're fine. In an ideal world we get Ramsdale off the wage bill and bring in a roughly Peretz-level backup, but how much would one cost? Possibly more than Peretz, knowing they're not coming in to be #1 and so aren't putting themselves in the shop window.

Outside of the ideal world I'm happy with the expensive insurance policy of an elite backup over fiddling about to maybe save a couple of mil and maybe have a decent chance of promotion in the worst case scenario.

https://www.transfermarkt.com/statistik/transferfenster

No-way the club want to be paying Ramsdale to sit on the bench or has been the case so far, not even in the match day squad. 

That’s £ that could well be put to use on bringing in a player that will actually make a regular  contribution. 

[Midfield_General]

9 hours ago, Dr. Kucho said:

Just reading this thread and the possible links to Falchener and Affengruber. And one question jumps to my mind, why come here?

Falchener will be playing Champions League this season and Affengruber plays in the Primera Division. Why would you go to the Championship?

Yes it certainly is a mystery

 

[hypochondriac]

33 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

Yes it certainly is a mystery

 

It's a conundrum and no mistake.

[Football Special]

6 hours ago, Give it to Ron said:

I don’t understand all these links as I was told in no uncertain terms on X from Boro salt of the earth fans that no players will sign for cheats and Tonda.

I've already seen a Boro fan claim THB is getting out as he's too afraid to play at the Riverside this season 

[Saintsarmy]

8 hours ago, SaintsFan86 said:

All of a sudden im an avid bird watcher.

?

[EBS1980]

Frustrating with the window closing on a game night.

hopefully we can get the main deals done today. 
 

imagine getting a backup keeper in is being hampered because Ramsdale is still here, wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t pick up a free transfer keeepr crafter deadline if we don’t shift Ramsdale until after the UK window closes. 

[SuperSAINT]

 

[Challenger]

9 hours ago, Cuddles said:

Quite a number of last minute deals to go through Tuesday night I reckon...certainly plenty of players to move on yet.

Who doesn't like a Tuesday night deal?

 

" I'm not a fucking wheeler-dealer, I'm a fucking football manager" .

[DellBlockH]

25 minutes ago, Football Special said:

I've already seen a Boro fan claim THB is getting out as he's too afraid to play at the Riverside this season 

Could be true. As an athlete, he has to take care of his lungs.

[hypochondriac]

4 minutes ago, SuperSAINT said:

 

I suppose this is the problem of having to get business done at the very end of the window. They can almost name their price knowing we have little time to sort alternatives.

[Midfield_General]

Falchener has given us the bird

Time to fling some serious peanuts into the monkey pit

[Matthew Le God]

6 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

Falchener has given us the bird

The club rejecting an offer, does not mean the player doesn't want to join.

[Suhari]

7 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

The club rejecting an offer, does not mean the player doesn't want to join.

#freeFalchener

[Turkish]

7 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

The club rejecting an offer, does not mean the player doesn't want to join.

If he wanted to join us he’d have gone on strike to push the deal through. Clearly not arsed. Missed out on our main target yet again. Chasing players that don’t want to join. Gakpo, Sportstein, Ramos, we NEVER learn 

[Lorry_Mack]

Don't know much about either of the CB's we are currently looking at, is either of them considered to be much better than the other?

[Willo of Whiteley]

Four concerns for me still, and knowing full well we won't be making four signings:
- A GK, imagine Peretz getting injured - Long being the answer seems too much!
- A defender to replace Harwood-Bellis. Not Schlotterbeck, clearly he is here to play ahead of Stephens.
- A midfield unit in midfield. Jander, Bragg, Downes and Ward-Prowse is a very good midfield four but feel we need one more for depth and with muscle.
- A striker to challenge Larin in a similar mould. Is Mubama the answer? Again, not sure yet.

[Sheaf Saint]

31 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

I suppose this is the problem of having to get business done at the very end of the window. They can almost name their price knowing we have little time to sort alternatives.

Bearing in mind that "the difference in valuation is too large" is almost word for word what was being reported about Villa and THB, I would think/hope this is all just part of the negotiation and we are still confident of getting it done. There's surely no way we would have loaned out JQ if we weren't 99% certain of securing a deal for our top target to replace THB. 

But if we really have given up on this guy then I hope we do have a realistic alternative lined up. Going into the season with Stephens and Wood as two of our only three options at CB would be negligence in the extreme.

Edited 4 hours ago by Sheaf Saint

[goodymatt]

2 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Bearing in mind that "the difference in valuation is too large" is almost word for word what was being reported about Villa and THB, I would think/hope this is all just part of the negotiation and we are still confident of getting it done. There's surely no way we would have loaned out JQ if we weren't 99% certain of securing a deal for our top target to replace THB. 

But if we really have given up on this guy then I hope we do have a realistic alternative lined up. Going into the season with Stephens and Wood as two of our only three options at CB would be negligence in the extreme.

Perhaps Affengruber was our first choice all along?

[trousers]

21 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Four concerns for me still, and knowing full well we won't be making four signings:
- A GK, imagine Peretz getting injured - Long being the answer seems too much!
- A defender to replace Harwood-Bellis. Not Schlotterbeck, clearly he is here to play ahead of Stephens.
- A midfield unit in midfield. Jander, Bragg, Downes and Ward-Prowse is a very good midfield four but feel we need one more for depth and with muscle.
- A striker to challenge Larin in a similar mould. Is Mubama the answer? Again, not sure yet.

Out of all those, the goalkeeper situation is perhaps the biggest concern for me...

Assuming Ramsdale doesn't stay, as you say, that leaves us with a keeper that was Norwich's No.3 not too long ago, and much derided by their fans to boot (echos of our opinion of Bazunu...)

Has he suddenly gone from that status to becoming a reliable No.2 in such a short space of time...?

I'm usually happy to give players the benefit of the doubt when they're not rated by fans of the club we're signing them from, but I'm struggling with this one...

The bottom line is, if Ramsdale goes then we *have* to bring in a decent No.2, rather than rely upon a previously ridiculed No.3... 

Edited 4 hours ago by trousers

[Football Special]

8 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Four concerns for me still, and knowing full well we won't be making four signings:
- A GK, imagine Peretz getting injured - Long being the answer seems too much!
- A defender to replace Harwood-Bellis. Not Schlotterbeck, clearly he is here to play ahead of Stephens.
- A midfield unit in midfield. Jander, Bragg, Downes and Ward-Prowse is a very good midfield four but feel we need one more for depth and with muscle.
- A striker to challenge Larin in a similar mould. Is Mubama the answer? Again, not sure yet.

A agree with all of that. Especially with Peretz and Larin off on international breaks neither will get much of a break this season, feels inevitable there will be some games when not available, more midweek games than ever in championship means a two week injury can quickly turn into missing 4 or 5 matches 

[AlexLaw76]

We of course need to bring in a keeper. George Long was brought in to put the cones out, right?

[westmidlandsaint]

38 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Four concerns for me still, and knowing full well we won't be making four signings:
- A GK, imagine Peretz getting injured - Long being the answer seems too much!
- A defender to replace Harwood-Bellis. Not Schlotterbeck, clearly he is here to play ahead of Stephens.
- A midfield unit in midfield. Jander, Bragg, Downes and Ward-Prowse is a very good midfield four but feel we need one more for depth and with muscle.
- A striker to challenge Larin in a similar mould. Is Mubama the answer? Again, not sure yet.

Can't say I don't agree with this, but likewise I don't see us bringing in 4 especially when we keep hearing squad too big.

Don't see another CM coming in. 

Not sure they'll go for another GK (although Long for the only back up is scary) 

Think priority will be a CB and if Archer goes then possibly another forward. 

[Midfield_General]

58 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

The club rejecting an offer, does not mean the player doesn't want to join.

What???

You’ll be telling us he’s not really part falcon either next 

Thank god you’re here 

[Weston Super Saint]

2 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

What???

You’ll be telling us he’s not really part falcon either next 

Thank god you’re here 

Surely you can just check the ears?

[CB Fry]

54 minutes ago, Turkish said:

If he wanted to join us he’d have gone on strike to push the deal through. Clearly not arsed. Missed out on our main target yet again. Chasing players that don’t want to join. Gakpo, Sportstein, Ramos, we NEVER learn 

We've been led on a merry dance and ended up with our pants pulled down AGAIN.

The laughing stock of world football.

[Matthew Le God]

 

 

[Saints4Prem]

Just now, Matthew Le God said:

 

MLG do you know how reliable the source is ?

[Cuddles]

21 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

We've been led on a merry dance and ended up with our pants pulled down AGAIN.

The laughing stock of world football.

[Matthew Le God]

6 minutes ago, Saints4Prem said:

MLG do you know how reliable the source is ?

He is the journalist of the article he links to. It's the Alicante equivalent of a regional newspaper/news website. 

So a Daily Echo equivalent. How reliable beyond that it is I do not know, but it isn't a random X user.

[Saint NL]

So the jist of that article is that they want €12m but might drop to €10m because his contract expires in a year and this is the last time they can get the big bucks for him.

Sounds like this one might be a go-er.

[goodymatt]

 

[Football Special]

43 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

We've been led on a merry dance and ended up with our pants pulled down AGAIN.

The laughing stock of world football.

Feels like our pants have been permanently around our ankles since SR took over 

[SuperSAINT]

 

[LegalEagle]

4 minutes ago, Football Special said:

Feels like our pants have been permanently around our ankles since SR took over 

What utter twaddle

[Saint Fan CaM]

19 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

So the jist of that article is that they want €12m but might drop to €10m because his contract expires in a year and this is the last time they can get the big bucks for him.

Sounds like this one might be a go-er.

I REALLY hope so - this guy is the real deal, can even cook at Prem level. Better than the bird man and more suited to what we need. I’m suddenly getting excited by the possible no.1 CB pairing we might end up with - a new era Killer and Claus?

[Willo of Whiteley]

8 minutes ago, Football Special said:

Feels like our pants have been permanently around our ankles since SR took over 

Spanner.

Fans pants have been pulled down since SR took over - yes.

The club, probably not. I wouldn't say we've overpaid for many players, even Brereton-Diaz seemed a bargain at the time.

[davefizzy14]

It will be either be Falchener or Affengruber then.

Edited 3 hours ago by davefizzy14